Fortified · Porto · Portugal
C. da Silva Dalva Tawny 40 Years Old Port
Scored from 68 calibrated Vivino reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the bottle is ranked. Cohort: Fortified · Portugal (1,422 wines).
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Tasting profile
A remarkably smooth, deep tawny with a fine, delicate intensity and exceptional balance of sweetness and fresh acidity, layered with raisins, toasted walnuts, black currant, and a whisper of orange blossom, honeysuckle, and sweet cardamom spice. The finish is bold yet subtle and extraordinarily long.
Synthesized from 68Vivino reviewers' tasting notes for this bottle.
What reviewers say
“Smagning hos Friis Wood & Deli. Fantastisk balance mellem smag og syre. Masser af rosiner. Ekstrem lang eftersmag. Kan man give 5+ så er det her”
From a top-rated Vivino review for this bottle.
Summary
From Porto in Portugal, C. da Silva Dalva Tawny 40 Years Old Port is a fortified wine.
1,421 other fortified wines from Portugal form the cohort it is ranked inside. 68 Vivino reviewers rate with enough spread for a personal baseline to be measured, and those are the ones the calibrated score reads; a separate, broader pool of 71 reviewers with at least two ratings each feeds the raw-average track.
How the score was built
We compare the reviewers of this bottle against every other wine those same people reviewed. Each review is scored relative to the reviewer's own baseline — four stars from someone who hands out fives means something very different from four stars from someone who rarely goes above three. Every reviewer then counts the same, so the result is a calibrated consensus rather than a star average.
- Global percentile
- Where C. da Silva Dalva Tawny 40 Years Old Port lands against every wine we rank.
- In-cohort percentile
- The same comparison narrowed to its cohort — wines of the same type from the same country. A Chilean red is judged against Chilean reds, not against Champagne. Ranked against Fortified · Portugal (1,422 wines).
- AI-adjusted percentile
- The same reviewer-normalized score, corrected for how much confidence the sample supports: thin samples are pulled toward the corpus average. Each wine keeps the share n / (n + 53) of its measured distance from the average, where n is its calibrated-reviewer count, and the result is ranked on the same scale as the global percentile.53 is the median sample size across everything we rank. Here n is 68.
Cohort: Fortified · Portugal
